Editor @ February 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By Barbara B. Davis, History, emerita
I love film, and I also love reading film reviews. It was most distressing to read Tim Peyton’s reviews of Juno and Atonement, two fine films. He seems not to understand that a critical review is NOT about himself and his own personal biases; he never defines some of his [...]
Editor @ September 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Review of Death Proof DVD release
Film geeks, around April this year, will remember the release of Grindhouse- Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodreguez’s B-movie double-feature. For those that don’t, Grindhouse was a sprawling action-packed horror thriller science-fiction epic, comprised of two films: Planet Terror and Death Proof.
Like most people who saw it in theatres, I had [...]
Editor @ September 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Paris Je T’aime is an omnibus narrative, the likes of which haven’t been seen this side of the indie/horror circuit since Babel, which showed at the Little Art last year. Twenty directors were invited to create 6-8 minute shorts around the theme of love in Paris- in essence, writing a cinematographic love letter to the [...]
Editor @ September 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Ratatouille (helpfully spelled out phonetically on the movie posters, reminding us that yes, this movie is theoretically aimed at the under 10 crowd) follows the story of misfit French rat Remy, whose aspirations of becoming a chef are held back by his unsympathetic, garbage eating family. Destiny intervenes when a freak accident involving a shotgun [...]
Editor @ January 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Basics:
“The Malahat Review is “a high quality, visually appealing literary quarterly which has earned the praise of notable literary figures throughout North America. It’s purpose is to publish and promote poetry and fiction of a very high standard, both Canadian and international. We are interested in various styles, lengths, and themes. The criterion is [...]
Editor @ October 20, 2006 # No Comment Yet
w /F/ Stop Fitzgerald
directed by Michel Gondry
starring Gael Garcia Bernal & Charlotte Gainsbourg
Stephane is an artist/inventor living in his mother’s apartment (the first they’ve seen each other since his father’s death) and works in a calendar assembly studio, which isn’t quite the artistic avenue he believed he was going down. Gondry continues the recent tradition [...]
Editor @ October 20, 2006 # No Comment Yet
w/ Peter H. Zimbicki & Devin Ross
Here it is boys and girls, the movie review of the week with special guest reviewer: Devin “Human Candle�? Ross. This week, we headed over to the Beavercreek Theater and checked out Martin Scorsese’s latest talkie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Vera Farmiga, Anthony [...]
Editor @ October 13, 2006 # No Comment Yet
w/ Peter Zimbicki
Alright, round two for the movie reviews and I really gotta start seein’ better movies. This week, thanks to a couple of friends, the movie I saw was Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the Beginning starring Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Andrew Bryniarski, R. Lee Ermey, Heather Kafka and directed by Johnathan Liebesman… man we shoulda [...]
Editor @ October 13, 2006 # No Comment Yet
w/ F/ Stop Fitzgerald
Shot in High-Def video by auteur director Robert Altman, A Prairie Home Companion is the big budget version of what Garrison Keillor has staged for years…his very last show. This time, though, he augmented actual folksy singers and performers with actors who do a better job. To be fair, there are several [...]
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